Neighbors, neighbor-love, and our animal neighbors

Defining the Christian duty to those around them as "neighbor-love", Kristin Johnston Largen understands this as the necessity of taking actions to work for those around us. She then suggests that this concept of "neighbor-love", with its imperative to action, must also be expand...

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Main Author: Largen, Kristin Johnston 1968- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Seminaries [2017]
In: Word & world
Year: 2017, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-45
IxTheo Classification:NCC Social ethics
NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
Further subjects:B Love Religious aspects Christianity
B Animals Religious aspects Christianity
B Endangered species
B Environmental degradation
B Ethics, Christian
B Neighborliness
B Jesus Christ
B Human Beings Relation to nature
B Relation (Theology)
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Summary:Defining the Christian duty to those around them as "neighbor-love", Kristin Johnston Largen understands this as the necessity of taking actions to work for those around us. She then suggests that this concept of "neighbor-love", with its imperative to action, must also be expanded to the animals with which we share the world, and who are suffering from exploitation.
ISSN:0275-5270
Contains:Enthalten in: Word & world